A theory developed by this man distinguished between the terms competence and performance. His book Barriers extended GB theory, which was developed in Lectures on Government and Binding. Another book by this man discusses how unique surface structures can be formed from a single deep structure. This man discussed transformational-generative grammars and the nonsensical sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in 
A theory developed by this man distinguished between the terms competence and performance. His book Barriers extended GB theory, which was developed in Lectures on Government and Binding. Another book by this man discusses how unique surface structures can be formed from a single deep structure. This man discussed transformational-generative grammars and the nonsensical sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in his book Syntactic Structures. For 10 points, name this member of the MIT linguistics department.
A theory developed by this man distinguished between the terms competence and performance.
Noam {Chomsky}